Store Manager for Zen Cart Release Notes

Features:
– Image Thumbnails in the Grid. Product image thumbnails will be displayed in the grid.

Improvements:
– Now Store Manager for osCommerce can access 4GB of RAM.

Fixes:
– There occurred issues with e-mails notifying about order status. The problem has been resolved and one can send e-mails properly.
– Product attributes and images were duplicated in the process of import. The issue has been resolved in this release and data are being uploaded flawlessly without duplication.
– In case Zen Cart users changed size of the text and other items in Windows settings, some information (products, categories, language selections) was represented incorrectly in Store Manager. Now Store Manager adapts to Windows settings and displays text properly.
– Previously categories, indicated in the import file, became inactive after product import. The problem has been resolved and category status is not being changed after product import.

Improvements:
Products with Attribute Stock management has been improved.
– Products, attributes are added to, are being displayed in corresponding section of Store Manager for Zen Cart;
– Product variant management has been enhanced, now you can manually add Zen Cart variant for selected product (in the lower grid);
– Product variants editing is being accomplished in the lower grid;
– Zen Cart variants import/export wizard has been added in this release of Store Manager for Zen Cart;
– Product search option has been added to Products with Attributes Stock section of Store Manager for Zen Cart;
– Quantity synchronization option has been added (calculates quantity of all variations, selected product possesses, which afterwards are assigned to this product)

– “Delete product image” button has been added to Images tab;
– Email Settings tab has been added to Preferences. SMTP settings should be configured in this tab now;
– Image Diagnostics has been optimized and now it runs faster;
– Basic operations has been added to some grids. The possibility to export data from grid to EXCEL, HTML, XML, CSV files has been added in this Store Manager release;
– The possibility to choose manufacturer for product in the grid has been added to Store Manager;
– The possibility to import products from XLS, XLSX, ODS files has been added in this version of Store Manager for Zen Cart;
– Mass Product Changer does not require registration since now it is free tool.

Bugfixes:
Product quantity was not calculated properly when this product was added to order. This issue has been corrected and product quantity is being recalculated now;
– Tables of Users and Permissions module were not backed up. This problem has been corrected in this release of Store Manager for Zen Cart;
– Product type was not displayed in product grid. It has been corrected and product type is shown in corresponding column of product grid;
– When Geo Zone was removed, Tax Zone assigned to was not delisted. This issue has been resolved and Tax Zones are being removed along with Geo Zones;
– When order status was changed from the grid, record was not added to order status history. Now it operates properly and changes are recorded to history.

Improvements:
– Plugins: Now all addons will be loaded into memory with Store Manager only on first application run. On next launches Store Manager will not load addon .dll files into memory until user clicks on certain addon. This decreases resources used by Store Manager and does not affect user interface – all installed addons will be available in Store Manager;

BugFixes:
– After the import process, image files formats differed, for example, not JPG but Jpg. For that very reason Thumbnails and large images were not displayed in Store Manager. This issue has been resolved in this release of Store Manager.

Features:
– The possibility to import large images and thumbnail has been added to Store Manager for Zen Cart functionality;
– The ability to upload images to FTP for manufacturers and Zen Cart categories has been added;
– New Visual WYSIWYG Editor has been implemented in program. It runs with Win8;

Improvements:
– New “Copy Products Attributes” check box has been added to product copy window. Products will be copied without attributes if you do not tick this box;
– When you identify subcategory for images in Preferences window, then this value will be automatically indicated in the process of import. In case you load saved import configuration, image category will be taken from there. It works for main images only, categories and manufacturers images are uploaded according to Preferences settings;
– The ability to change Discount_Type i Discount_Type_from for products discount has been added to Mass Product Changer tool;

BugFixes:
– Previously, fields for orders export were not displayed. The issue with orders export has been fixed and it functions properly;
– Now you can open and save files for import in a proper way;
– Previously, if you indicated in Preferences the subcategory, images had to be uploaded to, product images were being uploaded to root category, path being ignored. This problem has been solved;
– When selecting images, you are allowed to enter image paths including up to 255 symbols, before it was possible to use 64 symbols only. Large image paths won?t be cut in the process of image upload.

Improvements:
– The ability of Manufacturer’s choose has been added to drop-down menu of Mass Product Changer.

BugFixes:
– When accomplishing multiple categories removing, the entire list stretched Delete Category Window. Now only those categories total title length of which does not surpass 128 characters will be displayed.
– Before when you exported orders to csv file, necessary for exporting fields were not represented in file. This issue has been fixed.

New Features:
– Possibility to import XML files into the program has been added. It allows you to import XML files from initial step of import process and assign necessary fields;
– New enhanced progress bar has been added to program. Now you can control components and addons downloading into program;
– Automatic refresh of product images have been added. You don’t need to refresh images after image upload process. It will be done automatically;
– If FTP connection is configured not properly, in case you try to download an image from the local folder or from FTP, appears pop-up window with notification and suggestion to set up FTP connection;
– Import procedure of products with categories identification by names has been optimized;
– Now the program will not reconnect to the current database, with slight changes in the settings occurrence;
– Calculator window has been added in the product edit window of Price Manager tab for filling Value and Quantity fields;
– When editing product, the program automatically determines the image path (ImgDir) for the product image;
– If in the store there are two languages?? – English (default) and German activated, then when re-connecting to database, language will change to the default language of the store;
– There has been added the option to change product price if ?Product Price includes Tax value? checkbox is ticked

Fixed:
– Before when cloning product in order or editing attributes error occurred. Now cloning algorithm has been completely changed;
– No field names appeared on the Quick Access Toolbar when switching to another Store Manager language. Now this issue has been fixed;
– The option of product removing when importing from Quickbooks on condition that “Update Price” checkbox is not ticked has been corrected;
– In the last versions of Store Manager in the process of image upload from local PC or FTP in the visual HTML editor, image path was indicated incorrectly. This problem has been fixed in new version;
– When connection configuration loading, over an existing connection configuration, the program warned and offered to replace the existing one, but in fact config was not replaced. Now this problem has been fixed;
– Field value “Always Free Shipping” in the Products DataGrid was not displayed. Now this column has been added in Data Grid;
– Access Violation which appeared when opening Multi Store Search form has been corrected.